Louise Beech speaks to journalist and author Lucy Mangan.
Join host Louise Beech as she chats with Lucy Mangan about her book, Bookworm - a love letter to the enchantment of childhood reading, from Wonderland to Narnia.
This event is part of our 2024 Brontë Festival of Women's Writing.
Find out more about the festival here.
Date: Friday 20 September, 7pm - 8pm
Tickets: £7 (under 12s free)
Location: West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
Suggested age: 16+
This event will be livestreamed and recorded for our digital festival attendees.
Find out more about attending the festival online here.
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Lucy Mangan is a TV critic at the Guardian and a columnist for The i newspaper. She's written for most of the major women's magazines, including Grazia, Cosmopolitan, and Stylist, and was named Columnist of the Year at the PPA Awards in 2013.
Her books include Hopscotch And Handbags: The Essential Guide to Being a Girl, a book about the experience of growing up in 80s suburbia, the novel Are We Having Fun Yet? and Inside Charlie’s Chocolate Factory, a commemoration of 50 years of Roald Dahl's classic in 2014. Lucy's memoir, Bookworm, a personal history and celebration of children’s literature, was published in March 2018. A sequel, Bookish, will be published by Vintage in 2025.
Lucy lives in London with one husband, one son, two cats, and fourteen double-stacked Billy bookcases.
(Photo credit: Stylist Magazine)
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Louise Beech is the author of ten novels and a memoir, Eighteen Seconds (2023).
Her debut, How to be Brave, was a Guardian Readers’ Pick; The Lion Tamer Who Lost was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel Awards 2019 and longlisted for the Polari Prize that same year; Call Me Star Girl was Best magazine’s Book of the Year; This Is How We Are Human was a Clare Mackintosh Book Club pick; and audiobook Daffodils was shortlisted for the Audies23.
Her thrillers, End of Story and Lights Out are written as Louise Swanson.
Louise's play, How to be Brave, comes to a variety East Yorkshire venues in October.